jireh the provider
Video Game Designer
I'm actually impressed with it. It reminds of battle realms in a way, kind of gives me a basic amount of experience of Nobunaga's gameplay even if I never tried one.
The critical observations and resorts after watchin the youtube and reading your review:
a. I TRULY agree with your point. It is good that you pointed out the playing styles of some of the gamers all over the world. There are instant players who rather act before they think , AKA instant response(action games like Marvel vs. Capcom, Mortal Kombat, God of War, Mad World, you name them...), players who favor edutainment (scribblenauts, tetris, Sims, Wii Sports would be examples), players who are managers and strategists that can plan scenarios any time of any kind of scenario whether it is history or fantasy(Nobunaga's Ambition, Fire Emblem, World of Warcraft, Battle Realms, Star Craft, and Civilization reflect these kinds of people), players who militiate with guns (COD, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Gears of war, you name them ...), players who prefer story and literature with exploration (Uncharted series, Pokemon Main Series, The Legend of Zelda series, Digimon series, Final Fantasy Series, you name them...), and many more other styles.
B. The situation of the Game's gameplay is going to be a stalemate. Both fan's POV will be clear for sure. One finds it less of a challenge while the other will most likely ragequit via insane difficulty (yes. that's my first experience with fire emblem shadow dragon and battle realms. But I got over it and been loving strategy too, second to My favorite genre of RPG). Seriously, I'm now practicing Radiant Dawn of FE in normal difficulty, to where I'm stuck on prison right now.
C. IF THEY ARE RELEASING 2 VERSIONS LIKE THE PMD, this could be a chance to have one side play the Nobunaga difficulty while the other one has pokemon difficulty and unlock it's opposite after a certain achievement. Most like impossible to happen in my opinion.
d. So, now I come to the possibility of mending 2 gamestyles: a 'turn based strategy - RPG' pokemon with a 'Command 1000 army/civilization - strategy' nobunaga's ambition. What could be the speculating possibilities:
1. We may see humans riding flying types firing arrows, or carrying close combat weapons. But it could be like a braviary tossing a geodude to the inner castle and the geo will use explosion in poke terms.
2. We may see swarms of Volbeat and Illumise firing signal beams like arrows. Could be the same to rock types firing Rock blasts and power Gems. Grass types firing bullet seeds.
3. Bug types may use pin missiles like javelins.
4. Psycho Cut, Leaf blade, and X-scissor may play like swords.
5. The psychic types may act as the clerics or (most likely never allowed on N.A. terms) fight like sages and sorcerers.
6. Poison pokemon may plague the city and poison a kingdom's food supply.
7. Fire types may act like the fire arrows.
8. Water type pokemon may act as transportation on water with fellow pokemon on top.
e. When I watched the 2nd PNA(Pokemon+Nobunaga's Ambition) trailer, it somehow mended Mystery dungeon + Fire Emblem + Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition + Final Fantasy Tactics gameplay. Huge similarities when each cutscene is divided.
f. The contradiction: Could it be Pokemon's time to join forces with a New ally (Nobunaga's Ambition) who sides on bloody war to control and unite Japan as a whole? (Wow Philippines never had this before the spanish came via 7107 islands).
Look, 2011 is Zelda's 25 anniversary and Pokemon's 15th anniversary. I think their anniversary gave toei the need to share their reputation together.
i really hope that, i like games that arn't just COD and you have to know the buttons, have the ability to shoot the right side of a barn and train for like 2 hours. i hate these games but games like: nobunga ambition, mega man (the most pure test of a true gamer), some legend of zelda games, and much more!